Catriona Kelly (, Fellow of New College, Oxford, and Tutor in Russi

Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the place and importance of literature in Russian culture. How and when did a Russian national literature come into being? What shaped its creation? How have the Russians regarded their literary language? This book uses the figure of Pushkin, 'the Russian Shakespeare', as an example.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 115mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 162g
• ISBN-13: 9780192801449
• ISBN-10: 0192801449
• Artikelnr.: 22340845

Autorenporträt

Catriona Kelly is a Fellow of New College, Oxford, and the author of A History of Russian Women's Writing (OUP) and co-editor of Russian Cultural Studies (OUP).

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1.: Testament
* 2.: 'I Have Raised Myself a Monument': Writers Memorials, Writer
Cults
* 3.: 'Tidings of Me Will Go Out over All Great Rus': Pushkin and the
Russian Literary Canon
* 4.: 'I Shall be Famous as long as Another Poet Lives'
* 5.: 'Awakening Noble Feelings with My Lyre': Russian Writers as
'Masters of Minds'
* 6.: 'And don't Dispute with Fools': Male and Female Literary Roles
from the Salon to the Soyuz pisatele (Union of Writers)
* 7.: 'Every Tribe and Every Tongue Shall Name Me': Russian Literature
and 'Prinitive Culture'
* 8.: 'O Muse, be Obedient to the Command of God': Writing and the
Spiritual and Material Worlds
* List of Further Reading